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The Gores Foundation at a glance

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The Gores Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$275k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$765kHealth$757kHousing & Shelter$650kReligion$220kArts & Culture$65kInternational$50kPhilanthropy$35kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES$250,000
PRIVATE SCHOOL VILLAGE$10,000
CHILDREN TODAY$10,000
SOL-LA MUSIC ACADEMY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $975k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $650k → 14%BASBLUE INC: $200k → 21%UNITED IN HARMONY: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $90k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
38

Total granted

$1.5M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
0%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES
    5× · 2017–2023 · $950k · revenue +24%
  • TJ
    THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +63%
  • TN
    THE NEST SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +340%

Funded once

  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $650k · revenue +52%
  • DE
    DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $460k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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3
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
4
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
5
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
6
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

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8
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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10
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation

Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.

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11
The Archer School for Girls Inc

The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…

Education
12
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cureshank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
17/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $950,000 · EducationCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND S…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUN…THE NEST SCHOOL: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $460,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $85,000 · OtherTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOLTHE KABBALAH CENTER: $75,000 · OtherTHE KABBALAH CENTERAFHU: $50,000 · OtherLEARNING LAB VENTURES INC: $50,000 · OtherAGAPE INTERNATIONAL SPIRIRUAL CENTER: $45,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF LEBANON: $35,000 · Other+20 more: $225,500 · Other+20 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION: $650,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSIONBASBLUE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesBASBLUE INCCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC+2 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $500,000 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP…Chopra Foundation: $100,000 · HealthChopra Foundation+4 more: $43,500 · Health+4 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropySOL-LA MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $42,500 · Arts & CultureWACO THEATER CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ART OF ELYSIUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · International
Education$1,165,000Other$1,025,500Human Services$975,000Health$643,500Philanthropy$115,000Arts & Culture$57,500International$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $950,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $650,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBASBLUE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChopra Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING LAB VENTURES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE NEST SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSOL-LA MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $42,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPrivate School Village: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCureshank: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChildren Today Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWACO THEATER CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED OUR STREETS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHORDS2CURE CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…
California Community FoundationCA16.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gores Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gores Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Safe Kids Worldwide: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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